Letter from Sally Gosling – IPReg, Head of Education Review

Dear Candidate,

I’m delighted that you have expressed an interest in applying for the role of Education Project Support Officer for IPReg’s education review. I hope this recruitment pack gives you the information you need to understand the role requirements and what undertaking the role would involve. More information on IPReg’s role, functions and activities can be found on our website: https://ipreg.org.uk/.

This is an exciting time to join the IPReg executive team. Our education review is an ambitious project that will launch in the spring of 2025. This follows a concerted period of scoping its purpose and areas of focus and planning how it will be progressed as a project. The review will form a substantial, phased project undertaken in strong collaboration with stakeholders.

The Education Project Support Officer will make a significant contribution to how the project is run and to the delivery of its intended outputs and outcomes. The role will contribute to how we take a robust, evidence-informed approach to key topics, including those to do with equality, diversity and inclusion; how we draw on best practice in professional education and assessment and ensure rigour in our project management and reporting processes; and how we secure and enable stakeholder input and feedback across the life of the project.       

The role will provide the opportunity to develop your career in a regulatory and legal services context and to work as part of a small, friendly and high-functioning executive team. You should be keen to develop your career in project working in education. You should be looking to build on and apply the knowledge, skills and experience you have gained to date in project support within professional regulation or higher education. Ideally you will have experience of supporting project activity that is multi-stranded and/or multi-staged. You should be skilled in using project management templates, tools and processes. You should also be confident in supporting stakeholder communications and engagement activity and in producing minutes and action notes.   

This role is full-time and will be offered as a fixed-term, two-year contract. You can find all the details on how to apply further along in this brief. If you have any further questions about the role once you have read this candidate brief, please contact Thewlis Graham via email: applications@thewlisgraham.com for a confidential conversation with Sarah Thewlis. We look forward to receiving your application.

Yours faithfully,

Sally Gosling

IPReg Head of Education Review